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Growing up, I knew there was some BIG secret that adults kept from kids. I convinced myself that this secret was how they could drive without ever blinking. Driving seemed like such a big responsibility I did not think you could afford to stop looking at the road for an instant or you'd die. I even watched my parents when they drove and somehow I never saw them blink. I thought this was the great secret of the universe and couldn't wait to find out how they did it.
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The written abbreviation "4WD," which is often found written on the outsides of big jeeps and pickup trucks, in truth means "four wheel drive." I used to believe that it meant "forward," a sort of advertising slogan indicating that anyone who used the car would be able to go forward.
I used to believe that traffic lights were controlled by a boy and a girl who lived underground and saw the traffic thru cameras and they pulled levers to make the lights change
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When we are young we don't understand how many things work. I thought cars were operated by magnetic strips under the road like on a toy car track. I was very confused on how the car knew where to go.
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A friend of mine told me that when she was little, she thought that the signs that say "no dumping" meant that people were not allowed to "take a dump" at that particular location. She wondered why people would want to take a dump outside in the first place.
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I used to believe that Disney World was up in the sky because you have to take an airplane to get there.
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I used to believe that cars were super intelligent and always knew which way my parents were going to turn and set the blinkers on the correct side for them.
I used to think that wherever you were, north was always directly in front of you. I never got why anyone had trouble with directions. North was to the front, south to the back, east to right, and west to the left. Then I discovered compasses.
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When I was little, I believed that airplanes that had a trail of clouds behind them were actually space ships on their way up into space.
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When I was a real little kid, I knew directions everywhere, so one day when my mom was driving (I was in the backseat) and stopped at a stoplight I commented about how the people who worked the stoplights never got to go home. My mom then laughed and told me that machines worked the stoplights. I was terrified! I told my mom they could make us crash and that people could control it better! Which, really, isn't true at all.
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We didn't have a car when I was a child, hardly anyone did. When an Uncle took my Dad & I to Butlin's for our holidays, I saw a sign that said, 'Dual Carriageway Ahead'
After driving on for ages, I just couldn't understand why I had not seen this village called 'Dual Carriageway'!
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When I was young, I thought that when you turn the blinkers on in the car, it made the car turn.
I thought that the reason there was glass over the instrument panel (battery gauge, fuel, etc.) to prevent people from manually grabbing the speedometer needle and jamming it well over 100 mph - because accelerating that quickly was almost certainly illegal.
I thought that to make a car go faster, you spun the wheel faster - clockwise to go forwards, counter to go backwards. You pushed the right or left pedal to turn.
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When we would pass the signs that said "Watch for Falling Rock" my mom said they were posted because a little Indian boy had been lost. I believed this for a long time and loved looking for him when we passed the signs.
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i use to think that little mice lived in the stop lights and changed them when people would drive up
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When I was younger, I used to believe that the road sign depicting the motorway in the UK was in fact a monster, with the bridge forming the arms, and the road beneath it making the head and legs. I was always relieved when we got of the motorway, because the sign had a line through it, so there were no more monsters.
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When I was a kid I called the articulated buses (the ones that are long and bend in the middle) "accordion buses" and sincerely believed that giants would come to our city and actually play the buses as accordions.
I used to believe there were monkeys inside traffic lights that made them change.
I used to think that traffic lights were controlled by elevators with light inside them, so when it went to green, it turned green, and all the other stuff.
